Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballinstona South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinstona South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43809, -8.55245
- SMR number
- LI040-275----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, 145m SW of townland boundary with Ballinstona North, two possible ditch-barrows (LI040-274/294----) lie 115m to the NW and 116m to the NE respectively. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 143, AP 5/2115) as a circular cropmark of a possible barrow. Trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) intersected at E by a linear cropmark running NE-SW on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff photograph labelled 143 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 July 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.